So I have this religion professor this semester (the same one whose book I'm editing). He's pretty cool. He knows I'm pretty busy, because I try to squeeze out a couple chapters of edited copy each week in addition to my work and school schedules. Yesterday before class I shot him an email letting him know that I might be late because I had to take a midterm after work but before his class. He said I sounded busy and wondered if he could help, which made me shrug my shoulders and ignore the email. What can he do? He can't make my professors stop giving me homework.
So after class that night he called me aside and told me that I would get an A in the class, that I would take the final but not be required to have to study for it, that I should still read the text for the course but that I would not be tested on it, and that I am no longer required to provide a chapter summary each week. So basically, I have to work on editing his book and I have to keep showing up for class.
Score.
I have never had a professor cut me this kind of slack before. And I didn't even tell him how stressed out I was--he just sort of knew and wanted to make it easier on me. He's the best ever.
